Netflix Hit With $105 Million Suit After Losing Copy of Nicolas Cage WWII Film

A film producer sued Netflix for $105 million on Wednesday after the company lost an unencrypted copy of his World War II film “Fortitude,” starring Nicolas Cage and Ben Kingsley. Simon Afram, a Swiss businessman, wrote the script and spent seven years and $45 million bringing it to the screen, according to his lawsuit

LOS ANGELES, July 30 : A movie producer is seeking $105 million in damages from Netflix after he says a copy of his unreleased Nicolas Cage movie was stolen from the streaming service's studios in Hollywood.Attorneys for producer Simon Afram said in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in California that the filmmakers had del

Makers of unreleased $45m film Fortitude sue after hard drive stolen from streamer’s Los Angeles office Netflix is being sued for $105m over the theft of a hard drive including an unreleased Nicolas Cage war movie. The streamer’s Los Angeles office was the target of a robbery involving a number of hard drives, one of w

The lawsuit faults Netflix for losing a drive that contained a copy of World War II thriller 'Fortitude.' The company maintains it's not responsible for the loss of the movie, which it says was delivered "without proper industry-standard safeguards."

Call it the case of the missing movie! On June 15, an unencrypted master copy of a buzzy, unreleased Nicolas Cage thriller was hand-delivered to Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters at the streamer’s request. It was the type of transfer that happens daily around town during a movie sale process. In order to properly review